[Forum Guide] How to clean up the Realm Forums 🙂

[Vilem-argent-dawn (Vilem)]

Public service announcement.

@Folktale-argent-dawn

Good morning Argent Dawn!

I’ve decided to finally give something to the community in a humble effort to improve your forum browsing experiences. I am sure I’m not the only one who is tired of the following:
1. ERP apologists
2. OOClet apologists
3. Trolls
4. Trashposting unsubbed dragons
5. menopausal insane catladies
6. Gore fetishists with absolutely no remorse, self-awareness or backbones
7. Fencesitting contrarian alts, classic or retail
8. Players who for some reason insanely hate the RP Community and do lowkey griefing both in-game and the Forums
9. Forum personalities that add their 2 cents to virtually every topic in existence but post nothing of value or even the hint of an interesting thought
10. Barely senile alcoholic madmen who LARP as Christopher Lee but without any charisma and replace it with insane rambling

If you’re also fed up with the absurdly boring or annoying antics of those I listed above, worry no more! Blizzard’s old Forum Ignore feature can be implemented with a few simple steps.

The following applies to Google Chrome and Firefox users. For Microsoft Edge or Safari any contributions would be welcome by finding an appropriate CSS Code addin/extension that will work for the entire site.

For my fellow Chrome users here’s the few easy steps you have to perform:

1. Get the Amino: Live CSS Editor extension (or a neat equivalent that can apply CSS code to a domain).
   Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/amino-live-css-editor/pbcpfbcibpcbfbmddogfhcijfpboeaaf
2. Enable the extension and have the realm forums open.
3. Open up Amino, select “Domain” and paste in the following text:
   article[data-user-id=“XXXXX”] {display:none;}
4. The XXXXX is the part with the User ID. To find this, right click on their name, pick “View Activity”. On that that page add .json to the end of the URL address and the first thing in the huge chunk of code that appears is the users ID. Paste it in the XXXXX part.
   5.Hit “Save” and refresh.

For Firefox users:

1. Get the Live editor for CSS and LESS extension
   Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/lt/firefox/addon/live-editor-for-css-and-less/
2. Enable the extension and have the realm forums open.
3. Open up Live editor and paste in the following text:
   article[data-user-id=“XXXXX”] {display:none;}
4. The XXXXX is the part with the User ID. To find this, right click on their name, pick “View Activity”. On that that page add .json to the end of the URL address and the first thing in the huge chunk of code that appears is the users ID. Paste it in the XXXXX part.
5. Refresh the page.

And done! The forums will have an insanely reduced number of clutter and what you will be left with are healthy discussions, the odd reply to a debate with some otherkin or troll and general positivity instead of the derailed warzones that some threads become.

Note that the guide’s list is in no way complete. Naturally I’ll consider any submissions and add them to the code list above, as well as remain vigilant myself and expand it when needed.

!!!Edit!!!: I’ve also compiled a complete list of IDs and the characters associated with them of the local miscreants. If anyone’s interested I can share it via Discord (Dalaken#4691).

As for those who have been regretfully pruned by the code, no worries, it’s natural! There should be consequences for rampant sillyness as they existed on the old WoW forums. As mentioned by an MVP / reinforced by others, it’s “on the list” for Blizzard when they finally decide to read some features that Discourse is missing, but I’m here to hasten the process at least a tiny bit. (Source: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/no-ignore-block-feature/31422/11)

All in all, happy posting Argent Dawn! I hope the forums will become more pleasant as more willing individuals follow this guide!